Some Ohio con­ser­v­a­tives who say they were tar­geted by the Inter­nal Rev­enue Ser­vice are head­ing to Wash­ing­ton as fed­eral inves­ti­ga­tions widen into the agency’s han­dling of tax-exempt appli­ca­tions. Sev­eral activists on Wednes­day described IRS treat­ment they sus­pect was polit­i­cally moti­vated. The Jus­tice Depart­ment is open­ing a crim­i­nal probe into improper …

Greta Annabelle Yeager, 96, of Pioneer Ohio, died May 13, 2013 at the Community Hospitals and Wellness Rehab Center in Montpelier.  She was the only child of Earl S. and Edna E. (Heacock) Snyder, born on October 30, 1916 in Ney, Ohio.  Mrs. Yeager graduated from Pioneer High School in 1934. Mrs. …

Philip D. “Flip” Bowen, age 63, of Pioneer, Ohio, died Tuesday, May 14, 2013, at his residence. Flip graduated from Aubeenaubee High School in Leiter’s Ford, Indiana. He was a Navy veteran serving as a Machinist Mate on a fast attack nuclear submarine, the USS Lawrence York Spear AS36. After …

Two fires and a two car col­li­sion kept emer­gency respon­ders in Williams County busy Tues­day after­noon. Just before 3pm, Edger­ton fire­fight­ers were called out to a blaze at a mobile home on County Road 9 just south of Ohio 24. No one was home at the time and no injuries …

The fight is on to save jobs in Edon. The for­mer Diver­si­fied Machine Inc., now called Chas­six Inc., announced on April 23rd that the com­pany plans to close the Edon plant by Feb­ru­ary 2014, and most employ­ees are expected to be released by the end of 2013. Approx­i­mately 76 work­ers …

Bryan Police say that on Tues­day at 7:00 AM, they arrested 33 year old Joshua D. Maag of Sycamore Lane, Bryan on two bench war­rants out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. The first war­rant was for fail­ing to appear on a show cause hear­ing regard­ing theft and the sec­ond was for …

No deci­sion has yet been made by the Napoleon Area Board Of Edu­ca­tion about plac­ing another oper­at­ing levy on the Novem­ber bal­lot. Last week, dis­trict vot­ers rejected a 0.5 per­cent school income tax that would have gen­er­ated $1.15 mil­lion annu­ally for oper­a­tions. It was the third time in 14 months …

Local gov­ern­ments and schools in Ohio could see almost $113 mil­lion in rebates from the state insur­ance fund for injured work­ers under a pro­posal from the gov­er­nor. The Governor’s office on Mon­day released a break­down of the schools, town­ships, cities and other pub­lic employ­ers who could see a pay­out from …

A new prin­ci­pal at Stryker Local Schools is not nec­es­sar­ily new to the dis­trict. The announce­ment of the hir­ing of David Shultz was made Mon­day night by the school board. Schultz was hired, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, on a two-year contract.

The Mont­pe­lier Vil­lage Coun­cil on Mon­day evening, heard a short pre­sen­ta­tion by Con­rad Beck, of Beck Insur­ance, after which coun­cil mem­bers approved renewal of the village’s prop­erty and lia­bil­ity insur­ance. Accord­ing to an arti­cle in the Bryan Times, Mont­pe­lier has been with Beck Insur­ance since 1991. It is cov­ered under …